SILENCE QUOTES V

quotations about silence

Do not too hastily conclude that silence is indifference. Indifference is not to care, not to act, not even to think or breathe. Indifference is inhuman and inhumane. Silence, on the other hand, is almost always premeditated, a willful act. Without silence there would be no sound.

JUSTIN BRYAN SNIDER

posted on daily quotation board at Li Po Chun United World College of Hong Kong, October 17, 2006


You have the right to remain silent and refuse to answer questions. Anything you say may be used against you in a court of law.

U. S. POLICE OFFICERS

Miranda Warning


Your silence will not protect you.

AUDRE LORDE

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches


Silence is true wisdom's reply.

ANONYMOUS


Silence is a profound teacher and a hard taskmaster. Learn her art when it is offered; there is much to hear within her temple!

LY DE ANGELES

Witchcraft: Theory and Practice

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Often silence is a powerful weapon. If we only knew how valiantly it could serve us in defense we should use it more. Under abuse or attack it may be the sign of guilt; but it may also be a proof of innocence and an unmistakable evidence of nobility.

JOHN DANIEL BARRY

"Silence", Reactions and Other Essays

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Silence has many beauties.

SOPHOCLES

fragment, The Sons of Aleus

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My silence will convict me.

REFUSED

"Last Minute Pointer"


Silence must be heard.

ENIGMA

"Silence Must Be Heard"


There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

STANISLAW JERZY LEC

Unkempt Thoughts


There is likewise a reward for faithful silence.

HORACE

Carmina

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Never miss a good chance to shut up.

WILL ROGERS

attributed, Vaudeville Old & New

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A silence so sweet
it repels all bees
with an inhuman excess
and ripples a tragic mask
in a goathead's bleached grin,
snow-fired, cow-fat, reflecting nothing

EDWARD BUTSCHER

Poems about Silence


Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs

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I have followed Silence from the belt of Orion to Berenice's curls -- then lost it in the laughter of my soul.

ELSA BARKER

Songs of a Vagrom Angel

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If silence is golden like they say it be
If silence is golden then how rich I must be

LYNN ANDERSON

"If Silence Is Golden"


So scream your heart out
You are the chosen
You got to show them
Silence is the enemy
Scream it out loud
We are the broken
We got to show them
Silence is the enemy

PAPA ROACH

"Silence Is the Enemy"


But still her silent looks loudly reproached me.

OVID

Amorum

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Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

LAWRENCE DURRELL

Justine


There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The Winter's Tale